Pence: Trump Showed the ‘Foresight’ Last Night to ‘Recognize’ that NAFTA Was a Disaster

PENCE: "I wrote a letter just saying I'm broadly supportive of expanded trade, but then something happened in Indiana earlier this year. I got a phone call from a company called Carrier that said they were pulling up stakes and taking 1400 good paying jobs out of Indiana to Mexico. And when I asked them why their first answer was 'All of our competitors are already in Mexico.' I mean, Donald Trump demonstrated last night the focus, and frankly the foresight, to recognize what a disastrous deal NAFTA has been. And I wholly agree with Donald Trump’s view about TPP. Hillary Clinton did say — the fact-checkers cleared it up — Hillary Clinton did say that she thought the Trans Pacific Partnership deal was the gold standard of trade deals. Now she’s changed her view of that, but Donald Trump and I both believe what we ought to do is let’s expand trade in the Asian Pacific rim but let’s do it one at a time with one country at a time so we can hold them accountable to the promises that they make. And I believe Donald Trump. He’s got the right approach to trade. And first and foremost, it’s about putting the American economy and the American worker first."